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“SoTA” as “source of truth agent” would be a pretty annoying/funny acronym to unless upon the world.

But it doesn't matter because Jensen sells the shovels and, in the background, tells people where to dig. Dude's basically a genius at making money.

Being the default high-throughput device is an incredibly strong position. We could say he’s a genius at making money, but really that’s downstream of the ability to keep CUDA relevant.

How do mathematicians view counter examples? Is it like an unexpected result in the physical sciences: annoying in the moment but potentially stupendously important as it reveals some inaccuracy in the current models? Or is it more like a bug report in coding… probably just, another little annoying detail?

I wonder what the thinking inside NVIDIA is at the moment. They have countless examples to learn from here, about the danger of not being willing to cannibalize your high end products. But, of course, there’s a reason that there are lots of examples of this sort of failure.

There’s plenty of competition that would be happy to attack them from below, though…

The comment you replied to implies a lot of over-complicated motivations and grand coordination. But I think “commoditize your complement” explains a lot here and is probably even simpler than your explanation.

Weird Al, obviously. He’s the only one capable of combining our oral traditions into a single coherent body of work.

I think Tracy Chapman is not a troll choice, but a prediction. It is an interesting pick that highlights that highlights that all the picks are predictions, given the age of the country.

I think it is probably not a prediction that will end up right, because music is sort of limited by changing musical styles. But it is an interesting one.

What was the disagreement on the atomics issue?

I only know them from openMP (more of a Fortran person)… without much thought my gut says that it’d be possible to implement an atomic operation with a mutex, but sort of defeating the purpose. An atomic operation is mostly expected (intended? hoped?) to be backed by some hardware atomic instructions anyway, right?

C will outlive all of us.

C++… I don’t know it well. But I’ve heard there are a lot of different dialects, to the point where it is possible that two C++ programmers might be writing in essentially different languages. How “old” is the language, in that case?

I think they mean the physical process of handling the shoes. At most places you rent your land and get your shoes at the same counter, basically in one transaction, which seems difficult to handle with a kiosk.

I had a Toshiba NB305, which apparently had an Atom N450 (just looking at some old reviews, I don’t have it running anymore). It seemed fine for basic command line stuff and some web browsing (websites already had too much JavaScript at the time but at least you could usually get away with turning it off without losing any essential functionality).

It was by far my favorite laptop I’ve ever had. I put an SSD in it, though, which made a pretty huge difference.

I’m 95% sure that was sarcasm.

That’s neat. It especially works because the words are a little bit nonsensical, so interpreting them literally becomes unexpected.

All this LLM stuff uses pretty basic linear algebra, and that’s a hot topic these days (not to turn my nose up at it, doing easy linear algebra at massive scales turned out to be a really good idea). Maybe that explains some of the attraction?

I think I agree with this.

A possibly interesting quirk of it is that this is a fairly intellectualized description (specifically):

- Spending more time and attention when selecting next artist

- Reflecting on what you like about the song/album, and why

- Taking time to curate your collection

- Exchanging thoughts with other people, and reflecting on their opinions

Of a process that at the time could have been summed up as “chit-chatting with your friends and picking the next song.” I wonder what it costs us, that these sort of process have become something we have to actively reflect on and make an effort. In the past this didn’t feel at all effortful, it was just fun and the easiest way to get music.

This isn’t intended as a criticism of your line of thought, I think you’ve accurately described a good process. Just a thought about how the accurate current description somehow doesn’t quite match the feeling of the past.

Just don’t point the thing at any maggots.

Make an unauthorized copy of a baby that grew up to be famous, so you can use their likeness and get a bonus case.

I thought MISRA was fine, and I don’t really understand why people complain about it. At least as a Fortran programmer who had to dabble in some C, I found I could read and write MISRA C much more easily than the obfuscated nonsense that C programmers get up to without rules, haha. (Actually come to think of it, it could just be that the MISRA codebase was engineered from the beginning).

IMO “State of the union keynote argues” makes it pretty clear that this is a perspective from the person giving the keynote. The article title isn’t reporting it as a matter of fact, but as an argument.

That’s interesting. Hyprland, spartan? It’s the fancy everything-and-the-kitchen-sink tiling WM, isn’t it?

There’s the “friends feed” in the app that has less garbage in it. I mean, these days it is just full of my friends posting pictures of their kids or reposting political things. But I can’t really blame Facebook for the fact that we got old and boring, and it doesn’t have the “suggested content” nonsense.

Maybe. I joined fairly early, still have an account, but did become pretty disengaged from it after graduation. So maybe I didn’t get the proper gradual boiling experience.

Facebook only made sense in the context of living on a college campus… I think it doesn’t quite fit this pattern because realistically users were rarely in the “good fit” case for only ~4 years. Then, for each user, it becomes this sort of awkward slowly decaying network as people move on.

I agree with everything else you said though.

They are doing the gag where they just describe representative democracy like it is a novel idea.

Practically we also need expert organizations and agencies to help advise the representative and implement their ideas, but I wouldn’t describe glossing over that sort of detail as “failing civics 101.”

I think it is rare to hate writing in cursive, in the sense that it is almost always optional these day, so the only people doing it are fans.

Not sure, I’m not familiar with the web ecosystem. Not familiar at all, so my next question will probably be stupid. Would it have been possible to compile your C++ library to WebAssembly?

Bankruptcy is still inconvenient. But mostly, people would be less able to get loans and then colleges would get to pick between reducing prices or having only a few rich students.

Yeah, I’m curious what put them in that case here, though. There are high quality open source linear algebra codes out there, so I’m surprised that they needed something generated. (But, just surprised and curious to hear more, not saying they are wrong or anything like that).

I agree with this. I basically don’t feel comfortable trying to pretend a fancy matrix multiplication can be responsible for anything.

But what if companies that don’t track responsibility outcompete those who do?

In particular what if some perfect AI decision making ends up nailing decisions that maximize the expected reward for the company. And, well, if that comes at the cost of some unmanaged low-probability catastrophic risk, the company doesn’t care because all the decision makers are AI that don’t mind being shut off.

How big of an advantage was it, to have the code developed specifically for your project? These AI tools are pretty impressive, but why not have it generate a call to BLAS or PARDISO or something?